This week we discuss Sunday's crucial referendum in Sudan over whether the oil-rich south should break away - and what the consequences might be for the north.
The Observer's foreign affairs editor, Peter Beaumont, is joined by Khalid al-Mubarak, media counsellor from the Sudanese embassy; Gillian Lusk, associate editor from the newsletter Africa Confidential; and Joroen Janson from the humanitarian aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières.
With voters expected to back a breakaway of the south, the panel discuss what will happen to the oil reserves, where the border will be drawn and whether sharia law will soon be adopted in the north.
Is the south able to stand on its own as an independent country?
